Mining Incidents

ASCI CR 22Metal/Nonmetal

Controlled by Daniel W Hunt
Firestone, Weld County, CO · Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 0504690
Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
2006
Latest incident
May 2006
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2006 · 1 incident

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Operator changing teeth on loader bucket. Hammer glanced off the segment striking the edge of the tooth. Teeth fragments came off, hitting him in the left forearm. This produced several lacerations, and foreign body retention. Taken to hospital to remove the metalic fragment, and suture of lacerations. Was returned to his normal duties the same day.